Coincidentally or not, after 10 years of ROS 1, the Open Source Robotics Foundation has launched a new version called ROS 2. ROS 2 (the code name “Ardent Apalone” – Apalone is a genus of turtles in the family Trionychidae) … Read more →

A few weeks ago I started writing a series of tutorials that ease the work of beginners in ROS. The first tutorial was about a template for a publisher node, the second tutorial was about a template for a subscriber … Read more →

A few weeks ago I started writing a series of tutorials that ease the work of beginners in ROS. The first tutorial was about a template for a publisher node, the second tutorial was about a template for a subscriber … Read more →

A few days ago I wrote a tutorial about a template for a Publisher node in Python. In the same tutorial, I used the template to write a ROS node to generate a random number. Today, I continue the series … Read more →

The Raspberry Pi boards, and especially Raspberry Pi 3, are very often used in robotics. The list of reasons is long and includes WiFi connection, GPIO, USB ports, a powerful processor, 1GB RAM, compatibility with a number of Linux distributions, … Read more →

I do not like to memorize definitions, methods, procedures, etc., but I like to find solutions to help me reach my final goal. In ROS, the structure of a simple node is repeated almost every time. To write the Publisher … Read more →

This guide will walk you through how to install and setting up an Arduino board to work with Raspberry Pi 3 having in common ROS Kinetic. To walk through this guide, you must have a Raspberry Pi 3 with ROS … Read more →

The first time I started reading about ROS was last year. Also at that time, I made the decision to learn as much about ROS and make as many projects as possible based on it. After reading the first tutorials, … Read more →

A large community and documentation that includes everything you need to develop intelligent robots have made Turtlebots one of the most popular platforms for education and research. Turtlebot 2i is a new Turtlebot version released by Interbotix, the same company … Read more →